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Estimating how inflated or obscured effects of climate affect forecasted species distribution [1]

Climate is one of the main drivers of species distribution. However, as different environmental factors tend to co-vary, the effect of climate cannot be taken at face value, as it may be either inflated or obscured by other correlated factors. We used the favourability models of four species (Alytes dickhilleni, Vipera latasti, Aquila fasciata and Capra pyrenaica) inhabiting Spanish mountains as case studies to evaluate the relative contribution of climate in their forecasted favourability by using variation partitioning and weighting the effect of climate in relation to non-climatic factors. By calculating the pure effect of the climatic factor, the pure effects of non-climatic factors, the shared climatic effect and the proportion of the pure effect of the climatic factor in relation to its apparent effect (ρ), we assessed the apparent effect and the pure independent effect of climate.

Publication Date: 
11/01/2013
Raimundo Real [2], David Romero [3], Jesus Olivero & et al [4]
PLoS ONE [5]
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Tags:
Climate Change [6], Climate Impacts [7], Spain [8], Mountains [9], Fauna [10], Mammals [11], Reptiles [12], Birds [13], Amphibians [14]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/raimundo-real
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/david-romero
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/jesus-olivero-et-al
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/plos-one
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-impacts
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/spain
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mountains
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fauna
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mammals
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/reptiles
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/birds
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/amphibians